If the new minimum speed is "one eighth of the maximum" and "as low as 300MHz" then it's no mystery how fast the chips will be clocked -- looks like they'll start at 2.4GHz. If you take a look at past product lines clocked in that neighborhood, and stare at some bird entrails, you can speculate wildly about an upper bound in the 3GHz neighborhood.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
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Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
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Jim
Not hard to do the math... #
Posted Friday 18th May 2007 13:53 GMT
If the new minimum speed is "one eighth of the maximum" and "as low as 300MHz" then it's no mystery how fast the chips will be clocked -- looks like they'll start at 2.4GHz. If you take a look at past product lines clocked in that neighborhood, and stare at some bird entrails, you can speculate wildly about an upper bound in the 3GHz neighborhood.